St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-13

such samples of metropolitanism, no
matter how ambitious the town may be,
and the sooner such apparent frauds as
this woman, HE themselves off for
pastures new, the better will the COM
| munity be pleased and the city cleansed.
MADAME ANDREWS
| is another clairvOyant who has chosen
residence district wherein to carry on
her business, the address being 1918
Fourth street north; but this lady re-
| serves her powers for her own sex, and
seems harmless enough, simply taking
| advantage of the weakness of females
| for probing into the future, and which
weakness nets her annually very de-
cent income.
The most remarkable parsonage met
| in the whole ramble was when the fol-
lowing notice was attended to:
THE greatest wonders OF the age, Mrs. st.
L John and assistant, the most celebrated
clairvOyants and phrenologiSts in the United
| States, will remain for short time at the
fremont house parlOrs, corner Fourth and
Sixth av. south, where they can be consulted
| from a. m. to 9 p. m All who are sick or
in trouble will do well TO consult the Won
derful ladies, as they give entire satisfaction
to all their callers. Everything strictly con
fdential and charges moderate. English,
French, German, Spanish and Italian spoken.
The fremont house is large board
ing house with aspirations to being
looked upon as an hotel. 1t possesses a
spacious office and an accommodating
clerk, and this gentleman in due time
introduced the reporter Oh his arrival to
queer, wizened old gentleman wear
ing SpectacleS and talking with for
eign accent. He i'll his turn, ushered
the man of the pencil to handsome,
airy room, where he left him, but not
alone. The room was occupied by a
lady, and she was the object of the re-
| pOrter'S search. The room was we'll
furnished, and two handsome bronZeS
of female forms Ornamented the bureau,
pictures hung upon the wall, of some
merit, and numerous large trunks
showed the occupant must be traveller,
and so she proved to be. Mrs. st. John
is striking looking woman, and is only
here a short while. but has been in st.
Paul previously. Her manner is bright
and Intelligent, and her specially is
phrenOlOgy and
TRANCE WORK.
After some deSultory conversation a
choice of action was proposed, and
finally trance, into which the medium
should fall and forecast the future, was
chosen. The mOduS Operandi required
the curtains drawn down, perfect still
ness, and the man and woman to be
close together, the man holding the
WOman'S hand. When the preliminaries
were taken the woman gave up the
ghost, her legs spaSmOdically twitched,
her whole manner was nervous, red
rings circled around her eyes, and the
seance began. Pressing the reporters
hand in squeeze like wise, she
screamed: "What would you have of
hot hovoO.s hn
SOlemnly answered: 1.-THE dread fu-
ture would l know"
Then she informed him in batelesS
breath:
Red candles circle round your hair,
And if you work hard, why you'll get there
This was in reference to speculation
which the reporter had got into and in
quired about. A dearly loved friend
not heard of for a long time was next
asked for, and the answer came over
the Silly silence that reigned around:
ASK the postmaster where she last
was, and he will tell" Wheat in May
was prophesied to be worth SIC. But
by this time the semi-darkness, the eX-
traordinary look of the woman before
him, to all appearance unconscious, the
horrible practical answer the spirit gave
about the postmaster, was beginning to
GLOBES emisSary, and Selling hold of
the woman he shook her for all he was
worth. Then yelling in her ear ''I'm
doneI I'm through!" she trembled.
gaSped and opened her eyes, and was
out of her trance. Whether the woman
ever was in trance or not is very
doubtful.
PRACTICALEvERY-DAY PEOPLE
think all such business nonsense: Senti-
mentalists theOrize ever the matter, and
partly believe, but whatever her pow
ers in mediumiStic sense may be, she
is born actress, and as for her man
nerS, they are firSt-claSS, and she has all
the appearance of lady of irreproacha-
bic character.
Some more places were visited, but
none showed anything out of the COM
mon run of this traffic, and the common
run of the traffic is simply sharp, cum
ming person quilting a procession OF
people bordering on idiocy; coming i'll
and going out, to be followed by more
fools, while the medium, who may be
aptly called the goddess Satire" sits
in her chair and takes the money in,
rolls it in her lap, and, thinking of
Shakespeare, laughing in her sleeve
murmurs to herself, "What fools these
mOrtals be-" This in itself is bad
enough, but when this business is
Haunted in the public'S face as decOy
to attract men into temptation and vice,
it is time such transparent frauds be eX-
posed, and with this object, and having
the welfare of the city at heart, the
GLOBE has undertaken TO ferret out
these people and show them to the pub
lie as they really are. If this opens
the eyes of some simpletonS to the folly
of their ways in placing confidence in
such people the object of this article
will be attained.